From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:16:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050225131658.44d6c380@snowdrop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050225101327.GC19670@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp>
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:13:27 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <chutz@gg3.net>
wrote:
| I hope I am not really hijacking the thread, but:
|
| maillog: 25/02/2005-10:18:12(+0100): Francesco Riosa types
| > Maybe after some time it has been in the tree keyworded "-*"
| > (testing, testing, testing)?
|
| What's the policy for "-*" v.s. "package.mask"? '-*' is pretty
| annoying in my opinion. Is "-*" for really, really bad ebuilds or
| something?
-* is generally used to indicate that it's a binary package or something
similar which has no chance of working on archs that it's not keyworded
for. package.mask means maybe portable, but too broken for ~arch.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-25 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 12:55 [gentoo-dev] mysql-bin ebuild Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 17:19 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-02-24 11:57 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 19:36 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-02-25 9:18 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-25 10:13 ` [gentoo-dev] -* v.s. package.mask Georgi Georgiev
2005-02-25 10:45 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-25 13:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-02-25 13:18 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-02-25 11:40 ` [gentoo-dev] mysql-bin ebuild Martin Holzhauer
2005-02-25 12:44 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-27 1:26 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 18:46 ` Stuart Herbert
2005-02-22 19:28 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 20:11 ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-23 2:20 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 19:03 ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-22 19:35 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-22 20:17 ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-22 20:26 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 14:40 ` Jeff Smelser
2005-02-24 15:12 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 15:12 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-02-24 15:28 ` Jeff Smelser
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